Creating wedding albums is one of my favorite parts of the job; visually creating the story of the day with images I've created. Putting together the layout is time consuming on both my part and the clients' part, but seeing the final product in print makes it so worth while. There is nothing like feeling the final product and viewing the printed images.

Here are a few images of my newest sample albums. Below is The Wedding Book, my latest addition to the album offerings. The Wedding Book is a sophisticated album with thin, flush-mounted pages featuring a modern design.

The two books standing up here are parent sized books; to the left is a companion book and the right is a custom parent book.

Below: Left: 9x12 Wedding Book with Sleeve / Right: Parent companion book

I love all of the cover materials the Wedding Book offers, as well as the imprinting options.

Below is a new sample of The Coffee Table Book, which I've carried for several years. This book is a casual, bound coffee style picture book.

Here are a few of my latest layout pages from a few different books.

Dustin is one of my husband John's very close childhood friend. Most of the time I've known John, Dustin has been living in Orlando, Florida. This past year Dustin's girlfriend Melissa, who's from Florida, moved up to Connecticut to live with him. I've gotten a chance to get to know both Dustin and Melissa; I just love them.

Melissa helped me out at a couple weddings this past summer, and was a fantastic assistant. I immediately liked her. Later in the year, September, Dustin popped the question and Melissa said yes! I then offered to do a fall engagement session (planning on for peak foliage). We had to reschedule several times, and at one point I was wondering if we could make it happen. Post Winter Storm Alfred, we finally got a date that worked and weather that cooperated. We plan on taking pictures at Wickham Park, and it was closed (assuming lots of tree damage from the storm). In a panic I call John--I didn't know what to do and Dustin and Melissa were on their way. We decide to go to Minnechaug Golf Club (where John is the head professional); Dustin is in golf as well so it works!

Here are a few of my favorites from the session. Enjoy!

Congrats again to Melissa and Dustin! Can't wait for the wedding!

John and I hosted Christmas Eve this year, we had a little over twenty people over. In-between the chaos of prepping everything and guests arriving there was a calm few moments where I got to grab a couple of quick pictures.

I picked up flowers in Harwington at Earth Blossoms.

Left is the Nana tree, my Nana use to have this up in her house as opposed to any kind of holiday tree (she probably didn't like the mess). As a kid, I just LOVED this ceramic tree. To the right is the tree I picked out, and John cut down.

My good friend Cherry (and assistant) shared her secrets with me and showed me how to make her toffee! I made milk, dark, and white chocolate toffee.

Leftovers from the wedding, why not!

Every now and then I shamelessly google my business. I'm always curious to see what will pop up. Recently I found a review on yelp, read below:

After countless searching and many phone calls to friends about finding a good photographer I almost gave up. I can't remember how it all happened, but I know that I never met her and I booked her. Alissa sense of style in her photos is something you can't teach a photographer, its something that naturally comes out. I could not believe when I saw our photos how amazing everything came out. These are not your typical wedding photos. They have energy, and there is details in all the photos, that makes you want to stop and take a long stare at them. Alissa managed to nail everything, and was super quick about taking her photos. If I had to do it all over again, I would not even think twice about booking her. Take a look at her website. Her style speaks for itself. She truly has a gift and passion that is not found in many photographers.

"Thank you SO MUCH for these gorgeous photographs. We absolutely love them- you managed to beautifully capture our crazy, insane, & absolutely perfect wedding day. Keith & I were just discussing how lucky we were to have a professional photographer willing to brave that storm, period, let alone someone so talented who helped us see beauty where we otherwise might have only seen disaster. I sincerely doubt we'll ever forget our wedding day, but I'm incredibly grateful to have your unbelievable images to share with our family & friends (who, I believe, will still be talking about that day for many years to come) and our future children as well!

I shared the link to your blog with all of my coworkers and received an overwhelming outpouring of love. I thought I would share one of the responses I received:

I just want to tell you that this is the most beautiful wedding and photography that I have EVER seen. Weddings make some people cry, they never have for me (until now). Congratulations. (You should enter these in a contest.)"